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Parent Edition |10th Annual | 2013

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by Allyson Reedy Colorado company brings easier, faster and safer employment opportunities to mothers searching for telecommuting, part-time, freelance, and flextime jobs. When Sara Sutton Fell was seven months pregnant, recently laid off and looking for work, she had a hard time finding the type of job she desired. Since she was starting a family, she wanted a flexible telecommuting job that would allow her to pursue her professional passions at home while raising her child. "I did freelance work for a time," Sutton Fell says, "but my job search for flexible work was frustrating, and I was amazed at the overwhelming number of scams in the workat-home niche." This experience inspired her to start FlexJobs, a career website that helps people find employment offering the kind of work-life balance they seek. The site specializes in uncovering professional, legitimate jobs that offer some kind of flexibility – whether it's telecommuting, part-time, freelance 40 or flextime. FlexJobs currently has 14,000 job postings on the site – all of which have been vetted for legitimacy by a team of trained researchers (read: you won't find any Nigerian wire transfer scams on the site). Flexibility and the ability to spend more time with her daughter was what Brooke Trexler sought. "After my daughter was born I went back to work as a teacher, but I missed being around her," Trexler says. "But being a full-time stay-athome mom didn't fit my personality or budget."

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